On the first full lap, \u201cThe Bullet\u201d was able to shoot past Febvre along a fast rhythm section, then tucked to the inside line on the next corner to move into second past Vialle!\u00a0 It was a lap reminiscent of his performance in Portugal and it looked like we were in for a Coenen versus Herlings showdown again!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Behind them, Jonass had settled nicely into fifth, but Renaux was dealing with the attentions of his teammate Gajser, who weaved one way, then the other, in his attempts to get past the Frenchman! The third\u00a0Honda HRC Petronas\u00a0of\u00a0Ruben Fernandez<\/a>\u00a0held eighth ahead of Calvin Vlaanderen<\/a> and\u00a0Red Bull KTM Factory Racing\u2019s Andrea Adamo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Coenen set about building his lead with a series of fast laps, but Vialle, under pressure from Febvre for third, suffered a heavy fall through a left-right sequence of corners, and had to retire from the race with a damaged motorcycle!\u00a0 Everybody moved up a position, but the fast circuit was proving to be difficult to pass on, and Gajser couldn\u2019t make a move on his teammate Renaux, as the Monster Energy Yamaha men finished fifth and sixth despite a late final effort from the Slovenian.\u00a0 Fernandez took seventh in front of home hero Vlaanderen, with Adamo ninth ahead of the\u00a0Gabriel SS24 KTM\u00a0of\u00a0Oriol Olive<\/a>r.<\/p>\n Up front, the crowd got into it as Herlings closed to within two seconds of Coenen, setting the\u00a0Acerbis Fastest Lap\u00a0on lap 13, before getting on the gas a touch too early on a slick landing from a jump, sliding to the floor on lap 14!\u00a0 He was able to pick it up quickly enough to keep second position, but Coenen was happy to cruise to the race win from there, with the factory Kawasaki pairing of Febvre and Jonass taking third and fourth behind Herlings. It was the Latvian\u2019s equal best Sunday race result for the factory Kawasaki squad, and his best for over a calendar year.<\/p>\n Although marginally beaten to the Fox Holeshot Award\u00a0by Vialle in race two, Coenen was right at the front again as Adamo held third from Febvre and a loudly-cheered Vlaanderen into the second corner! Herlings was again chasing from around eighth, as Coenen carved past Vialle to take the lead at the bottom of the circuit.\u00a0 Adamo had slipped back to seventh, as Herlings fought his way into fourth ahead of Vlaanderen and Gajser.\u00a0 Jonass, Fernandez, and Oliver rounded out the top ten by the end of the first full lap.<\/p>\n Coenen again sprinted away, as Febvre and Herlings closed on Vialle, and it all changed between the trio, with nine world titles between them, on lap five!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the first full lap, \u201cThe Bullet\u201d was able to shoot past Febvre along a fast rhythm section,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,52492,85],"class_list":["post-782891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}